Re: Source IPv4 address selection vs BGP IX connection

2024-04-24 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> Short version: > > Using FreeBSD as a BGP router has network issues caused by suboptimal > default IPv4 source address selection when connected to Internet > Exchanges (which are required to use IPs that aren't routable on the > Internet). I was hoping to find more elegant workarounds or encour

Re: Source IPv4 address selection vs BGP IX connection

2024-04-24 Thread Gregory Shapiro
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 07:10:51AM +0200, Marek Zarychta wrote: > W dniu 24.04.2024 o 04:12, Gregory Shapiro pisze: > > Short version: > > > > Using FreeBSD as a BGP router has network issues caused by suboptimal > > default IPv4 source address selection when connected to Internet > > Exchanges (w

Re: Source IPv4 address selection vs BGP IX connection

2024-04-24 Thread Gregory Shapiro
> The mistake your making, IMHO, is that an IX connected eBGP FreeBSD > router _SHOULD NOT_ be doing ANYTHING other than BGP on the IX > connected interface, and anything like DNS and outbound SMTP should be > going inward on the AS, not outward to the internet. Fair point and thank you for the ad

Re: Source IPv4 address selection vs BGP IX connection

2024-04-24 Thread mike tancsa
On 4/23/2024 10:12 PM, Gregory Shapiro wrote: Short version: Using FreeBSD as a BGP router has network issues caused by suboptimal default IPv4 source address selection when connected to Internet Exchanges (which are required to use IPs that aren't routable on the Internet). I was hoping to fin

[Bug 263982] IPv6 Router Advertisement - Route Information Option

2024-04-24 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263982 --- Comment #3 from Alex Wied --- Is there any plan to fix this? It's strange to me that a pfSense router (which runs FreeBSD) would cause issues for a FreeBSD machine. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the

Re: Source IPv4 address selection vs BGP IX connection

2024-04-24 Thread Paul Vixie
agreed. and one of my mods to the ultrix (~4.3bsd) kernel for gatekeeper.dec.com back in ~1990 was to use the result of gethostid(3) if that result was nonzero and if a socket was not already bound. so named(8) and ntpd(8) and anything else that used explicit binding got what they expected, but